Wild foods for dietary diversity
July 1 , 2023
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- The study titled ‘Wild foods contribute to women’s higher dietary diversity in India’, was published in the journal Nature Food.
- It highlights the role of food items collected from forests and common lands in women’s diets in rural India.
- The wild food consumption significantly contributes to women’s diets, particularly during the months of June and July.
- Women who consumed wild foods had higher average dietary diversity scores than those who did not collect wild foods.
- 40% of the women in the study group never met the minimum dietary diversity over the one-year period.
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